Synodic month length 29.62 days

Length of current 390 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 52 minutes. It is 37 minutes longer than next lunation 391 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 8 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 21 July 2031 Monday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠188.7°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠188.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠213.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after apogee

2 days after point of apogee on 18 July 2031 at 14:28 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 2 August 2031 at 06:47 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 401 931 km

Moon after descending node

6 days after its descending node on 14 July 2031 at 12:38 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 28 July 2031 at 23:54 in ♏ Scorpio.

Draconic month

Moon after northern standstill

5 days after previous North standstill on 16 July 2031 at 09:01 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.045°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.951° in the next southern standstill on 30 July 2031 at 15:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.